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Southway, BEACONSFIELD, HP9 1DE

This lane used to connect Holtspur and Glory Mill until it was cut in two by the building of the M40 Motorway. No doubt confusingly to some visitors the remnant part on the other side of the motorway is called Glory Mill Lane, while this part is so-called because it is close to Glory Hill Farm. For a view of the lane in the adjacent grid square to the west please see Image

Carved stone post by the A40, in parish of Beaconsfield (South Bucks District), White Hill; Holtspur, under trees on wide, ivy-covered verge, on South side of road. Beaconsfield diamond pillar, erected by the Beaconsfield & Stokenchurch turnpike trust in the 18th century. Inscription reads:- : Oxford / 29 / - / Wycombe / 4 : : London / 25 / - / Uxbridge / 10 : : XXV / Miles to / LONDON / 1744 : Carved benchmark lower right face. Buckinghamshire HER. HER Number: 1362000000 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MBC25814&resourceID=1024 Milestone Society National ID: BU_LW25

These houses are at the western extremity of Beaconsfield.

This lane used to connect Holtspur and Glory Mill until it was cut in two by the building of the M40 Motorway. No doubt confusingly to some visitors the remnant part on the other side of the motorway is called Glory Mill Lane, while this part is so-called because it is close to Glory Hill Farm. For a view of the lane in the adjacent grid square to the east please see Image

Victorian Ordnance Survey maps show that Holtspur was then really not a lot more than the King's Head, presumably a coaching inn on the main route connecting London and Oxford, and a now long-lost brick works. Today the King's Head is a Harvester restaurant on the A40 (the Harvester Beaconsfield), but you would struggle to see evidence of its original name (it's there in red under the dark green oval Harvester sign, if you look closely, but sadly lacking the apostrophe). See http://www.harvester.co.uk/harvesterbeaconsfieldholtspur/ for details. Another sign of the times is the advert for hot tubs on the roundabout.

There are more shops round the corner in Heath Road. Those in the photo include a post office, and a printing and graphics business.

Beaconsfield fire station, 2 Skelton Close, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

Photograph looking west along Mayflower Way, taken from the top of the tower of St Thomas's Church. The prefabricated houses (single storey) are no longer there.